AMD A8-5500 vs AMD PRO A8-8670E

A8-5500 vs PRO A8-8670E benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the PRO A8-8670E beats the A8-5500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the PRO A8-8670E has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the A8-5500 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the A8-5500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.